Why are people not selling melds gear ?>

[mindful]

With right melds it above the darklight gear. and more.,

[Tupsi]

The only reason I can think: People rather meld their own little 'snowflake builds' than spend a few hundred thousands on the "right" meld item. (Depending on item of course.) Not to mention you can get DL so easily crafted gear is basically a waste unless it's stuff like certain Rose Gold and Darksteel or Vanya stuff. Yoshi made sure no one used crafted gear (since most comes from Chests (Aetherial) or quests then your AF > then WP/AK/DL time.)

[SpookyGhost]

Don't know what to tell you, my Market Board is full of the stuff. Though a lot of people interested in Darksteel/Rose Gold/etc will know a crafter who can make it for them so they just farm out the tome mats. Maybe that's why there's less on your server's MB.

[JagerForrester]

Materia costs time and money. Bare gear is more efficient to craft and sell.

[Flionheart]

Darklight is more than good enough to have incredibly efficient and fast AK/WP's and Myth/Allagan is better.

I'm not wasting insane amounts of gil on stopgap BiS.

[NightWrath]

The only craft items are do find useful is two accessories for a massive hp in turn 5 fireball so u can always split in 3 with no worries, beside there i fell there is no reason to spend money on craft.

[xRitzx]

IMO, it's because buying crafted gear with no melds is more customizable and people that sell gear with melds overprice it.

I bought crafted gear and here was my situation. Crafted vanya body with no melds was selling for about 275k, with 2 tier 4 savage aim melds it was 1.5 million (I think tier 4 savage aim is 199k on malboro). 1.5 million was way out of what I was willing to pay but under $300k when coke, potash, peacock was selling for 22k was reasonable to me. I also had 2 savage aim 3 materia and 1 heaven's eye materia 3 I got from spirit bonding. I bought and melded my vanya hat and body for much less than the price of the already melded version. I ultimately bought non melded vanya because it was closest to what I wanted.

Tupsi's 'snowflake builds' explanation is pretty accurate. The build I did is far from optimal but it didn't cost me too much and is more or less what I wanted. I'm sure there are many others that have done and will do their own builds too because it is what suits their wants more.

[Kallera]

Crafted gear takes twice as long to make(21 WP runs, picture that.), requiring luck and cost in materia melding, in order to make them comparable to DL gear, and it might not be what the buyer is looking for. Ultimately the dev post that insisted that craft gear will never be as good as the dungeon drops marginalizes their relevance in the economy. Are you going to blow copious amounts of gil that was hard to make, or run WP a few times for something comparably good, no HQ or materia headaches required?

PvP might be different, But we don't know any specifics to judge on that, It might end up being the same situation.

[Lyrinn]

I made my own Vanya set because Darklight is ugly (and because I could afford it).

[mindful]

I thought that the access meld gear rings and stuff better melded then other stuff you can earn if bonuse to 4 extra slots. I Know crafting wise with right stuff sells worth the gil for crafting gear. You Power level your char with the leves quests stuff, and works for fates to go faster. End game mix bag since heard if got right rotations with right melds gear is godly, but need understand and have to have the right ability unlocked with right set meld set up.